bug#4888: 23.1.50; emacsclient vs. daemon
Peter Tury <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:22:16 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs |
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Hi, I found some issues while playing around emacs --daemon. Here are the first ones. 1. In (info "(emacs) emacsclient Options") I see: 'As a special exception, if COMMAND is the empty string, then `emacsclient' starts Emacs in daemon mode and then tries connecting again.' This is not really true: as -a has a mandatory, non-empty COMMAND, it is impossible to call emacsclient this way from command line. The special exception mentioned above works only if alternate_editor environment variable is set to empty string. My suggestion is to - either change emacsclient.c to accept -a with empty string as COMMAND or - state explicitly in Info and in emacsclient.c's help text the way it really works. 2. On the same Info page an example is given this way: 'EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor emacs +%d %s"' I think it should be: 'EDITOR="emacsclient --alternate-editor=emacs +%d %s"' Thanks anyway,P ---------- In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.3) of 2009-11-08 on transcend-160 Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10604000